A DAILY PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM FEATURING NEWS ANALYSIS OF THE DAY'S TOP ISSUES

Background Briefing: July 16, 2020

   Will Trump Be Able to Kill the Postal Service Before November to Stop Mail-in Ballots? We begin with the Republicans’ on-going efforts to destroy the post office which Trump has accelerated by putting in an unqualified crony as postmaster general to...

Background Briefing: July 15, 2020

  Since Trump Blew Our First Chance, We Have To Contain Covid Now Because We Won’t Get a Third Chance We begin with our nation in the lethal grip of ignorance and stupidity as states led by pro-Trump dolts like Florida’s governor see record...

Background Briefing: July 14, 2020

  Trump Clearly Bribed Stone For His Silence But Will Other Republican Senators Join the Two Who Have Condemned His Criminality? We begin with a follow up on whether Roger Stone’s commutation can be challenged and overturned due to the exception in the...

Background Briefing: July 13, 2020

   Trump’s Pardon of Roger Stone is Unconstitutional We begin with the growing outrage against Trump’s pardoning of Roger Stone including the distinct possibility that the Federal Judge who sentenced him, Amy Berman Jackson, could challenge the...

Background Briefing: July 12, 2020

   Did the Dirty Trickster of The Mob Boss-in-Chief Threaten to Rat Him Out If he Goes to Jail? We begin with the latest brazen act by the mob boss-in-chief who commuted the sentence of his long-time advisor Roger Stone who inherited his job from Roy Cohn and...